As this topic happened to catch me with a few minutes to waste, I'll reply that of course no one needs to be saved, or educated, or helped. But given that the health and wellbeing of individuals is interconnected with the health and wellbeing of their community, it's probably worth trying to inform people not to drink bleach, or that LGBTQ folks aren't a threat, and the like.
In the end, people will believe whatever they want to, but to deny the value in promoting facts and reality-based reasoning is morbidly cynical and ultimately self-defeating.
ETA: Agreed that punaweb has reached a nadir (so now this qualifies as Hawaii related
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In the end, people will believe whatever they want to, but to deny the value in promoting facts and reality-based reasoning is morbidly cynical and ultimately self-defeating.
ETA: Agreed that punaweb has reached a nadir (so now this qualifies as Hawaii related
)